For most people, "godparents" is all about dressing up for a special wedding-like occasion (i.e. the christening), and the honour of having a special place in the life of a friend's child. Godparents are often relatives or family friends who send you an extra Christmas card and/or a birthday present. For some Christians who hold to infant baptism, godparents have a more serious role, answering the questions at baptism on behalf of the infant being baptised (see below), and pledging to be involved in their Christian upbringing. In other infant baptism traditions, for example, Presbyterianism, it is the parents who take on this role, the infant being granted baptism based on an understanding of the covenant whereby believer's children are also part of the covenant on account of the faith of their parents. So what do Baptists, and others who hold to a believer's baptism position, make of "godparents"? (Believer's baptism means baptism based on the per...